appointed, Mr Mark Collins QPM. Special Constables The Royal Virgin Islands Police employs numbers of Special Constables. These officers have the same training, powers, and duties as regular constables, but work on a part-time basis whilst also maintaining another (primary) career. Their policing duties are carried out during their own free time. This is similar to the United Kingdom's Special Constabulary. Auxiliary Constables In the early days of the Leeward Islands Police, only a very small detachment of regular police officers was based on Tortola. They were supported by locally recruited and trained "Local Constables", who had limited authority, but maintained law and order. This tradition has continued to the present day, and the RVIP still includes around 20 "Auxiliary Constables", who have limited training, and are employed in supervising school crossings, and carrying out simple traffic control duties. They perform some station administrative duties, and sometimes investigate minor offences. In many ways they are similar to British Police community support officers, but unlike PCSOs, a Virgin Islands Auxiliary Constable has full police powers of arrest and detention. References Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands law Police 1967 establishments in the British Virgin Islands